Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...replaces incompetency, careful diagnosis replaces careless and indifferent examination, and thoroughness replaces haste, a great deal will be accomplished. Perhaps, then, replacement of Stillman Infirmary can await the day when some philanthropist may see fit to provide Harvard with new facilities for caring for the sick. But some drastic reform and reorganization must take place now and University Hall should undertake some investigation of the prevailing menace. It is not a request but an earnest plea on behalf of students who depend so vitally upon these facilities...
...Pundit Walter Lippmann. Said he: "What has been attempted under NRA . . . is a mixture of good and evil. . . . It was bound to break down. It has broken down. And the courts will do an historic service not only to the nation as a whole, but to recovery and reform, to the President and his party, if they liquidate a major part of the centralized regulation to which the New Deal has committed itself...
Nancy Lady Astor turned her tart Virginia tongue last week upon Minister of Labor Oliver Stanley, gilded son of the Queen's Bedchamber Woman, who fortnight ago confessed to the House of Commons the failure of the National Government's attempt to reform Britain's wasteful "Dole" (TIME, Feb. 18). Said the Noble Lady: "Government should have stood by their unemployment scheme and corrected its defects without so much everlasting apologizing to the Labor Opposition! It was all right for the Labor Minister to make his statement in this House, but it was not necessary...
...Stotesbury has said: "My favorite topic of conversation is my son Jimmy." Since Mrs. Stotesbury also gets along well with Mr. Stotesbury, Son Jimmy & bride should have plenty of money to use for Jimmy's ideas on monetary reform. His business career has been lively. First married to Delphine Dodge, daughter of Motormaker Horace E. Dodge, he stepped in after his father-in-law died, persuaded the widows of the two Dodge brothers to dispose of the company to a stock-selling syndicate for $146,000,000-biggest cash sale in Wall Street history. With his fat profits from...
...that the reason we have no such tradition is traceable to the selfish motives of youth, and that we will never have a tradition unless college students start the ball rolling by devoting their lives to the public. Unquestionably the argument has force, but nothing will be accomplished, no reform effected, unless the vicious circle is attacked from two angles...